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[Cia]

What's a 'council tax'? Is that something like a county property tax?

[Rapscallion]

We have the government = the whitehall bunch who sit in session and vote on issues of major importance (such as giving themselves huge pay rises because other people get them). They fund themselves (and sometimes the country) by national income tax and a few other wily wheezes.

Then we have the local councils. These are locally elected officials who sit in committees to decide how much they should pay themselves, and they occasionally do some decent work as well. They are funded by the council tax - it's set by each local council and based on property values, so you pay more if you own a large home.

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[Becks]

From The Simpsons:

Homer is reading phone message memo to Mr. Burns.

Homer: You have 30 minutes to move your car or it will be crushed into a cube.

Homer: You have 15 minutes to move your car.

Homer: You have 10 minutes to move your car.

Homer: You have 5 minutes to move your car.

Homer: You have 30 minutes to move your cube.

Mr. Burns:

Sometimes I say that at work, when they page for customers or managers to move their cars, because they're "blocking a delivery".